PB260 Nomenclature Links

Please note: The links provided in this syllabus lead to supplementary information offered by other on-line systematic courses at other universities or sources. Please use with caution, as some of the information presented may be different from what we cover in PB260.

While surfing the web, if you find some good web sites not given below, please send Dr. Robertson an e-mail!

• Detailed Nomenclature Page, University of Maryland
• All About Botanical Names of Plants
• What's in a Name? Texas & M
• Curiosities of Biological Nomenclature
• The Official International Code of Botanical Nomenclature
• A [Technical] Guide to Botanical Nomenclature
• Animal, Vegetable or Mineral? [A history of biological nomenclature
• Glossary of Roots of Botanical Names on PrairieNet
• Printed Dictionaries on Plant Names(intended for Florida, but useful elsewhere)

Also, here are some books that might be useful.

• Allen J. Coombes. Dictionary of Plant Names: The pronunciation, derivation and meaning of botanical names and their common-name equivalents. First published in England by Collingridge in 1985; U.S. edition published by Timber Press.
• A. W. Smith. A Gardener's handbook of plant names: their meanings and origins. First published in 1963, reprinted by Dover in 1997.
• Hugues Vaucher. Elsevier's Dictionary of Trees and Shrubs. 1986. A multilingual dictionary comprised of 2,300 Latin names subdivided into 140 families, 510 genera, 1,650 species and varieties. Simplifies the correlation between the popular and scientific names. Sections with English, French, German and Italian names.

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